"Something is deeply wrong with this system, when people who are wealthy are getting far wealthier...and people who don't have a lot are falling further and further behind." - Dr Cassandra Goldie AO, CEO, Australian Council of Social Service at our Revenue Summit 2025 #auspol

This week's #SundayShot features @deepcutnews.bsky.social's @antounissa.bsky.social & former Meanjin Editor @anatolitis.bsky.social plus we look at key findings on the state of our boys from the recent Adolescent Man Box report. Please join us on Sunday at 9am AEDT 👇 www.youtube.com/@TheSundayShot

Rupert Murdoch's News Corp lies about whether it lies about the climate crisis. Via @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/environment/... #ScienceUnderSiege #NewsCorpse

There's this woman doing an absolutely wild social experiment on TikTok. She calls random US churches with the sound of a baby crying in the background, explain the baby hasn't eaten in over 12 hours, and asks for 1 bottle of baby formula. She has a public spreadsheet of how each one responded. 1/3

I cannot stress enough that you should not in any circumstances be using an AI-generated summary when you are signing contracts of any kind DocuSign scrambling onto the anxiety-fuelled AI slop festival.....

The UN health agency warns recent progress in tackling the disease is under threat due to a shortfall in critical aid.

#Auspol cartoon calendar with Herbert, Katauskas, Wilcox, Kudelka, le Lievre, Golding, & lots of other jokers. The Scribe website search function is a non-intuitive fiasco: if you get lost on the site search Radcliffe then 'More' to get to 2025 calendar. scribepublications.com.au/books/best-a...

It ys onlye Gen AI if it ys from the Gen AI regioun of Fraunce, otherwyse it ys just sparklinge plagiarism.

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🇳🇿New Zealand COVID weekly update: 9 Nov 2025 3 Nov to 9 Nov 2025: 🔹Reported cases: 181 (+19.8%) 🔹Reported Deaths: 4 (-20.0%) 🔹Total deaths: 5,475 (+4) 21 Oct to 27 Oct 2025: 🔹Hospitalisations: 23 (-20.6%) #COVID19NZ Source: www.tewhatuora.govt.nz/for-health-p...

A Senate inquiry into South Australia's toxic algal bloom has been tabled highlighting "limitations" in how the government has handled the crisis.

Australia: Prof Griffin says severe COVID can occur in young children, but less often than in older adults. Over 16,000 cases and 400 hospitalisations in under-4s have been reported this year. He is concerned about challenges that conflicting vaccination recommendations for children can create.

‘Set up to fail’: ATO outsourcing to private call centres focused on boosting profit not helping Australians www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

No Skylarking! No concierge! No being poor! It's "social housing" Barangaroo style. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Voting with your ears.

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Anyone else remember the "See - Smile - Say Hello" era at Myer/DJs in the 90s 😳😬😳

Australia’s current child support debt is the highest it has been in a decade. As of December 2024, $1.9 billion was owed, with 153,694 non-payers. While interest on unpaid amounts is payable to the government, it’s not passed on to the parents who are owed

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Do I walk away from private insurance and trust that health challenges will have me seen promptly enough in the public system?

This has #CommunityFoundation written all over it. A fabulous community asset. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

"For essentially the last 25 years every single resources minister, bar one, has left Parliament and gone to work for the resources industry." - Senator Larissa Waters at our Revenue Summit 2025 @larissawaters.bsky.social #auspol

Moderate Liberals breeding program. The Age

Across the the Blue Mountains, apple farmers are noticing less fruit this season. Some are wondering if it's linked to varroa mite.

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Next to no infrastructure has been built in Joyce’s electorate in the past decade, other than the ill-thought-out relocation of the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority to Armidale. The man who promised to build 100 dams has built net zero. satpa.pe/fN4TBKk

Shortly after being elected Queensland premier, David Crisafulli told the LNP state council, “We don’t exist for culture wars.” His first act as premier was to close the state’s First Nations truth telling inquiry and halt the progression of a treaty. satpa.pe/SwI1NFh

There's a lot of talk about how to monitor screen time for kids. But for kids to have healthy relationships with technology and smartphones, parents need to model good habits. Here's how. n.pr/4qUnkjx

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Rare recommendation to read the comments 🤣🤣🤣

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Excellent 🤩 Especially Brian - well deserved www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

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Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to our analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. (Published February)

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Merry-go-round

“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion” futurism.com/artificial-i...

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Academics say their work estimating the cost of reaching net zero emissions is being ‘misrepresented’ after Nationals repeat (and repeat) $9tn claim www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The colourful flowers of gazanias might attract you to buy them at a nursery but it is worth considering whether you are getting an invasive weed causing havoc to our landscapes.

Science is facing *a lot* of obstacles these days. The final episode of BBC's Science in Action looks at where things are heading, with @michaelemann.bsky.social @naomioreskes.bsky.social & @angierasmussen.bsky.social @drdebhoury.bsky.social : www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w... #science #antiscience